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Hi Len, <br />Here's something that I did once on one of my orevious HO layouts - <br />I had made a stone bridge out of plaster tunnel portal castings. I had to trim the castings to fit, so I was left with all these scraps of cut-stone castings. I was about to throw them away, when an idea hit me. I lined up the "stone walls" roughly in the shape of a building's foundation. Then I went to my scrap box, & found lots of little pieces of scrap styrene - railings, pipes, courugated siding, pieces of brick wall, metal, etc. - I painted everything aither dirt, or rust color, piled it in, & around the foundation, added some dirt, rock, & weeds, & voila - the ruins of a demolished building! <br />This turned out to be a great addition to a front edge area of my layout. It didn't obstruct the view, or access, & added interest to what otherwise would have been a flat, uninteresting space.
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